We have developed this guidebook to provide you with quality information that are responsive to your needs as an investor stepping into the country for the first time. It gives you an overview of the business climate in the Philippines and various reasons why it has remained to be a bright ...
Despite pervasive challenges to regulate UPF consumption in the face of contemporary corporate power dynamics, a small precedent of success has been set by a handful of countries in the adoption of UPF regulatory policies. Most of these countries are in Latin America, where UPF consumption has gro...
InRomeandMilan, new local littering and loitering laws are being enacted. Islands inThailandand thePhilippineshave been temporarily closed for rehabilitation. Barcelonawon’t allow new hotels to be built downtown, and has added plenty of new local laws to discourage tourism (especially given the lo...
The papers used for authentic land titles in the Philippines are supplied by theBanko Sentral ng Pilipinas. These papers are physically unique from all other kinds of papers that you can buy from stores. Here are the things you should look for: ...
Companies are shifting toward first-party data strategies There has been a big global push toward comprehensive data privacy legislation, and in the US 20 states, including California, Virginia, and Colorado, have enacted laws that protect consumers’ rights over their personal information as of Sept...
Similarly, legislation enacted under the European Commission’s Data Privacy Directive could prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-EU countries unless certain additional notice, consent and security requirements are satisfied. Because U.S. privacy laws don’t provide protection that’s judged ...
world’s top recipients of remittances. The World Bank estimates thatremittances to Mexico reached $61.1 billion USDin 2022. This has led to the development of specialised payment channels and services to facilitate these transactions, similar to economies such as those in the Philippines or India....
which became the basis of compulsory sterilization laws enacted by more than 30 states. The man who defeated him in the 1912 presidential campaign, Woodrow Wilson, shared similar views on race, and prominent figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller and Winston Churchill supported...
have enacted laws (the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act) to prohibit mortgage lending discrimination. However, instead of being denied credit, ethnic minorities have become targets for financial exploitation in a structurally segmented mortgage market that offers high-cost, subprime...
Hong Kong SAR is still some way behind other jurisdictions in Asia like Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia that have regulated virtual assets as a distinct asset class. This is currently under consideration to ensure Hong Kong SAR meets FATF Recommendations, but it’s likely that any c...